Vol 51 No 20 | NIGERIA The car bomb whodunit 8th October 2010 Whoever was responsible for the car bombs that killed 12 people in Abuja during the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's Independence on 1 October and whatever their motives, they...
Vol 39 No 25 | NIGERIA The man who would be king 18th December 1998 Gen. Obasanjo's presidential hopes have taken a beating after the local government polls The local government elections on 5 December were good news for Nigeria and bad news for the presidential frontrunner and former military leader, General Olusegun Obasanjo. There was...
Vol 54 No 9 | NIGERIA Opposition on all fronts 26th April 2013 A new political alliance to confront President Jonathan is gathering pace as security conditions – north and south – deteriorate The newly united opposition parties – the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) – have joined forces to condemn soldiers for what...
Vol 54 No 22 | NIGERIA Jonathan’s dialogue plan outflanks rebels 31st October 2013 As the political class gets drawn into presidential plans for a national conference, the rebel state governors are running out of options It has taken six weeks for President Goodluck Jonathan to regain the political initiative after seven state governors walked out of his party’s national conference at the end... READ FOR FREE
Vol 53 No 22 | NIGERIA The $100 billion bash 2nd November 2012 Government efforts to ignore a comprehensive new report on oil and gas industry corruption arouse deep suspicions Findings by a government-commissioned task force that over US$100 billion has been siphoned off from Nigeria’s oil and gas industry since 2002 is causing a political storm. It...